Bloomberg: 'Spare me' fear-mongering on sequestration

2/27/13 5:17 PM EST

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks everything in his city will be fine after sequestration and that the administration's efforts to scare people about the cuts have gone too far.

"I think in all fairness on Monday, we'll be able to police the streets," he said outside the White House on Wednesday, after meeting with Vice President Joe Biden to talk about gun safety measures. "It's something that takes a while to implement."

"There’s a lot of posturing — ‘I’m going to lay off my employees today unless you do something. We’re going to close the hospitals down. We're going to take all the prisoners from jail and put them on the street. Spare me. I live in that world. I mean come on, let's get serious here," he said. "It's not good for the country — we need to have the White House, the Republicans and Democrats in Congress come together and intelligently find ways to reduce the deficit, but not with a meat axe."